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UAW seeks toehold in South with Tennessee Volkswagen plan Writing in George Mason University’s Journal of Labor Research back in 1986, economist Morgan Reynolds accused top bosses of the United Autoworkers (UAW) union of “consciously exporting American jobs.” What Reynolds meant…
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House Makes History Regarding Right To Work Legislation As the account linked above shows, legislators in the Missouri Capitol in Jefferson City are now passionately debating whether Show Me State employees and employers would benefit from enactment of a Right to…
Read MoreTax Freedom Day Arrives on April 18, 2013, Five Days Later than … Last week, the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation announced its estimate that “Tax Freedom Day” this year will occur on April 18, five days later than in 2012.  (The…
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Tell Albany: It’s Time to Raise New York’s Minimum Wage | Raise … Personal income, per capita personal income, disposable personal income, and population (SA1-3, SA51-53) Cost of Living 4th Quarter 2012 During their successful push early this year for a minimum wage hike…
Read MoreCompensation of employees by industry (SA06, SA06N) One of many canards hurled against Right to Work states by Big Labor apologists is that they starve their public sectors. Â New and revised data released by the U.S. Commerce Department March 27…
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New Census Data Show People Go Where the Money Is In a Sunday column for the Washington Examiner analyzing which regions of the U.S. are growing the fastest (see the link above), Michael Barone acknowledges that, of course, “it’s still possible…
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Employment, Hours, and Earnings from the Current Employment … Late last week I pointed out here that U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data reported and updated on March 18 show that private-sector payroll employment in Right to Work states grew…
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Private sector union decline dates to the late-50s Washington Examiner Online, March 21, 2013 Slate columnist Matt Yglesias posted the above chart yesterday as part of a post arguing that â€America’s Private Sector Labor Unions Have Always Been in Decline“.…
Read MoreState and Area Employment, Hours, and Earnings : Multi-Screen … State Annual Personal Income & Employment Early this week, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its estimates for total 2012 private-sector payroll employment in the 50 states.  The…
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AMERICA’S GROWTH CORRIDORS: The Key to National Revival A recent report for the Manhattan Institute by economic demographer Joel Kotkin on what he calls America’s “economic growth corridors” (see the link above) is full of interesting data and observations, but…
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